BlockBefore

Caballo, New Mexico

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Truth or Consequences West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87931. It stands on Las Animas Creek. The Survey maps it on the Caballo quadrangle. 77 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,252 feet above sea level.

Caballo within Sierra County

Population over time

2 figures

Caballo fell from 112 to 77 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010112
202077-35 (-31%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Photographs

1 photograph, 2021

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

View of the distant mountains at dusk beyond the Caballo Springs Reservoir in Sierra County, New Mexico
View of the distant mountains at dusk beyond the Caballo Springs Reservoir in Sierra County, New Mexico
Highsmith, Carol M, 2021. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

20 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Caballo between 1994 and 2018, burning about 67 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
19 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLas Cruces Field OfficeKOOK
11 July 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMILE 61 I-25 S
31 May 2011Smokingunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPAMPAS
31 May 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionRV
31 May 1994Natural20 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeGRANITE
3 May 2004Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeBAT CAVE
22 May 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Division187 GRILL
14 May 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Division6-3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sierra County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Caballo: 5 unknowns, 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Fluorine-Fluorite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gold EagleGold, SilverUnknown
Granite PeakCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrence
FluorideFluorine-Fluorite, LeadProspect
Fluoride ProspectFluorine-Fluorite, LeadOccurrence1937
Materials Pit 64-29-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials Pit 65-15-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sunset Mine 1948Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer1945, 1947
Blondie ClaimsGoldUnknown
Dredge Tailings 5GoldUnknown
Dredge Tailings 6GoldUnknown

Every working recorded in Sierra County

Storms near this place

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caballo in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2016: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2009Thunderstorm WindCaballo$4,000A power outage resulted from 4 power poles blown over.
August 2016Flash FloodCaballo-Water from Animas Creek was flowing over Capaz Road making it impassable.
May 2012HailCaballo-Golf ball size hail reported in Caballo.
October 2002HailCaballo-no account filed
March 1999Thunderstorm WindCaballo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sierra County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Oasis3.6 miles9
Las Palomas6.0 miles11
Arrey8.8 miles8
Williamsburg9.7 miles11
Truth or Consequences10.9 miles9
Derry13.0 miles8
Elephant Butte13.6 miles14
Hillsboro14.2 miles11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on CaballoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5737856The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 898738. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.